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Young Woman Dressing Herself

Edgar Degas, 1885

51 cm × 80 cm

About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 80 cm
Width: 51 cm
Medium: pastel over charcoal on tan wove(?) paper mounted on board
Kind: Drawing
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 51 cm × 80 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1885. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman.
How was it made?: Pastel over charcoal on tan wove(?) paper mounted on board.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at real size.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.